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Meri Saheli’ initiative was launched as Pilot Project by Railway Protection Force (RPF) across South Eastern Railway for security of women passengers in trains originating in that zone.

Aim

• The Railway Ministry decided to launch the Meri Saheli initiative with an aim of providing safety and security to the women passengers who will be travelling by trains for their whole journey from the starting station to the destination station.
• It will instill a sense of security among the women passengers travelling through short or longer routes of the train. .
  
• The initiative also aims at responding effectively to any security-related issue faced by the women travelling from trains.

Meri Saheli 

• The initiative was started as a pilot project in South Eastern Railway in September 2020 and after getting encouraging response from lady passengers.
• An initiative of RPF, the strategy entails interaction with lady passengers especially those travelling alone by a team of lady RPF personnel at the originating station.
• These lady passengers are briefed about all precautions to be taken during the journey and told to dial 182 in case they face or see any problem in the coach.
• The RPF team collects only the seat numbers of the ladies and conveys them to stoppages en-route.
• RPF/RPSF escort onboard also covers all the coaches/identified berths during its duty period.

Source: PIB